Medical Economics cartoon: The old fitness tracker

Consolidated financials average out the gap between your best and worst offices. Here's how to measure profit by location, allocate shared overhead and decide whether to fix, expand or close an office.

Physician groups in risk contracts often learn what they owe months or years after the fact. Medical Economics spoke with Najib Jai, M.D., MBA, chief operating officer of Arbital Health, about why settlements turn into disputes and how actuarial AI tracks contract performance while the year is still underway.

A Maryland pathologist and MedChi past president explains how all-or-nothing contracts, anti-steering clauses and private equity deals inflate costs. He also outlines the federal and state reforms that could restore competition.

The AMA and eight other physician groups say a CMS rule narrows a protection Congress wrote for medically frail patients

Almost 70% of consumers will abandon AI customer service after two failures, a recent survey found.

A physician mortgage loan lets doctors buy a home with little or no down payment and no PMI. Here's how it works and how lenders count student debt.

Physician noncompetes still hold in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

Unfilled prescriptions and skipped referrals often reflect hidden logistical, financial and emotional work, not a lack of motivation. A behavioral scientist explains where patients drop off and how practices can close the gap in the first days after a recommendation.